On Wednesday, 27 June 2007 22:49, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > FWIW, I'm on record stating that "sync" is not sufficient to quiesce an XFS
> > filesystem for a suspend/resume to work safely and have argued that the only
>
> Hmm, so XFS writes to disk even when its threads are frozen?
>
> > safe thing to do is freeze the filesystem before suspend and thaw it after
> > resume. This is why I originally asked you to test that with the other
> > problem
>
> Could you add that to the XFS threads if it is really required? They
> do know that they are being frozen for suspend.
Well, do you remember the workqueues? They are still nonfreezable.
Greetings,
Rafael
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